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burr-tools Puzzle solver
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Maintainer: fuz@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-10-31 17:21:52
Last Update: 2025-10-31 17:15:16
Commit Hash: dc0fded
License: GPLv2+
WWW:
https://burrtools.sourceforge.net/
Description:
This (set of) program(s) will help you solve a certain kind of puzzle. Namely puzzles that are made out of square or dice shaped units, spheres or prisms with an equilateral triangle as base and where the pieces are also aligned along those grids in the solutions.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/burrTxt
  2. bin/burrTxt2
  3. bin/burrtools
  4. share/pixmaps/burricons.png
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/burr-tools-0.7.0/catalog.mk
  6. /usr/local/share/licenses/burr-tools-0.7.0/LICENSE
  7. /usr/local/share/licenses/burr-tools-0.7.0/GPLv2+
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • burr-tools>0:games/burr-tools
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/games/burr-tools/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install games/burr-tools
  • pkg install burr-tools
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: burr-tools
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1761825073 SHA256 (burr-tools-burr-tools-v0.7.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 735893471dfbb4b73ae80dd0d30a4947d6c45ddfb1d1495e6c4b97b60152513c SIZE (burr-tools-burr-tools-v0.7.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 1534659

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. boost-libs>0 : devel/boost-libs
  2. meson : devel/meson
  3. ninja : devel/ninja
  4. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  5. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
  6. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
Library dependencies:
  1. libpng.so : graphics/png
  2. libfltk.so : x11-toolkits/fltk
  3. libGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
  4. libGLU.so : graphics/libGLU
  5. liblua-5.1.so : lang/lua51
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for burr-tools-0.7.0: EXAMPLES=on: Build and/or install examples ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
games_burr-tools
USES:
gl localbase:ldflags lua:51 meson pkgconfig
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/burr-tools/burr-tools/tar.gz/v0.7.0?dummy=/
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Port Moves
  • port moved here from games/burrtools on 2025-10-31
    REASON: Harmonise with upstream repository name

Number of commits found: 1

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
0.7.0
31 Oct 2025 17:15:16
commit hash: dc0fdede53ae3a9bf83ecd3bc30aad9948f86ce2commit hash: dc0fdede53ae3a9bf83ecd3bc30aad9948f86ce2commit hash: dc0fdede53ae3a9bf83ecd3bc30aad9948f86ce2commit hash: dc0fdede53ae3a9bf83ecd3bc30aad9948f86ce2 files touched by this commit
Robert Clausecker (fuz) search for other commits by this committer
games/burr-tools: update to 0.7.0

 - project has moved to github
 - project now builds with meson
 - rename from burrtools to burr-tools to match repository name
 - docs require Python 2.7 to build.  As per policy, I have thus
   not packaged them.

Changelog: https://github.com/burr-tools/burr-tools/releases/tag/v0.7.0

Number of commits found: 1